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I agree that their existence is confounding since they were brought to MIddle Earth on an important errand, but that's Tolkien for ya!
Whatever happened to all of the "evil things" after Sauron falls? Do the Orcs slowly shed their green scaly skin and turn back into Elves or Men or both? Do the Trolls turn into stone? He never really explained much about the enemy save the Easterlings and Southrons whom Aragorn afforded a Peace treaty so to speak.
If you read the Book of Unfinished Tales you can find more information on the Galadriel and Celeborn, stories about Numenor, the Rohirrim, the Druedian (Woses), The Palantir stones, and the story of Gondor from right after Isildur dies right up to the Stewards taking over to rule it. There are also some good chapters on the Istari, but it gives most of the attention to Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast than the Blue Wizards.
Even if they did follow that route I don't think there is much to write about. Their entrance into the story line is so brief and sparse with any details that even adding anything new to them would seem pointless.
For my money I would like to see an adaptation of the Kin strife and the decline of Gondor, as well as a story about the early days of the Rohirrim when they entered into the Westfold and became a key ally to the dwindling kingdom of Gondor. You could also do a whole movie on Queen Beruthiel and her mischievous horde of cats.
The Blue Wizards almost come across as an anomaly due to their absence in the Return of the King. Tolkien wrote that they may have fallen away from their mission but in the last great battle it appears that they had no interaction with the Easterlings whom Sauron had control over. It seems that they went even further East of Middle-Earth and fell out of sight out of mind.
I wonder if anyone knows about moviechat.org? I sense that this thread precedes the IMDB shut down, but hopefully it can be revived. I too was an early participant in the LoTR message boards.
There wouldn't be much to tell about their adventures as Tolkien didn't write much about them to begin with.
I find the closing shot of the rat rather obvious and not as clever as most people make it out to be.
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DeNiro's performance was clownish. Memorable of course, but clownish and his accent was TERRIBLE.